"Hasan Qarbasi reported: I spent many nights with the great Imam (ash-Shafi'ee). He used to spend one-third of the night in prayer and yet I have not seen him reciting more than fifty to one hundred verses. At the end of each verse, he would beseech God's mercy upon himself and upon all Muslims."
(Source: Imam Ghazali's Ihya Ulum-id-Deen)
Surely, as demonstrated here, a verse read and reflected upon is better than a multitude of verses recited with an absent mind and an absent heart!?
And the sacrifice of sleep and the care, as demonstrated here, for those beyond himself can only but be aspired to. May Allah have mercy upon myself and upon all Muslims and may He guide us all. Aameen.
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